{"id":155571,"date":"2026-08-03T22:00:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T22:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=155571"},"modified":"2026-08-03T22:00:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T22:00:07","slug":"surprising-how-quickly-chinas-military-is-closing-gap-with-us-analyst-lyle-goldstein","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=155571","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Surprising\u2019 how quickly China\u2019s military is closing gap with US: analyst Lyle Goldstein"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostLyle Goldstein is a senior fellow at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown University, and director of Asia engagement at the Washington think tank Defence Priorities.<br \/>\nHow do you assess the progress of the People\u2019s Liberation Army\u2019s modernisation drive in the past 10 years and its significance in modern military history? How do you forecast the PLA\u2019s position in 2027, which it set forth as one of three vaguely defined modernisation benchmark years?<br \/>\nMy view is that&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/military\/article\/3362782\/surprising-how-quickly-chinas-military-closing-gap-us-analyst-lyle-goldstein?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostLyle Goldstein is a senior fellow at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown University, and director of Asia engagement at&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155571"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=155571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155571\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=155571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=155571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=155571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}